Dr Iestyn Woolway

Cymrawd Ymchwil Annibynnol NERC (Darllenydd)

Contact info

Room: 308 Craig Mair

Email: iestyn.woolway@bangor.ac.uk

Web: Google Scholar; Research Gate; Twitter

Dr Iestyn Woolway's research focuses on the physical interactions between climate and water, with a particular interest in the physics and hydrology of lakes worldwide. This includes aspects such as climate-induced variations in lake evaporation, water temperature, ice cover and energy fluxes. Using a combination of in-situ, satellite, and modelled data, his research aims to answer key questions that relate to climate-related changes of inland waters. He graduated from Bangor University in 2011 with a BSc and MSc in Physical Oceanography and then undertook a PhD in Physical Limnology at University College London (2011-2015). Dr Woolway was then a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading (2015-2018). In 2018, Dr Woolway was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, hosted at Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland), followed by a European Space Agency Fellowship in 2020 - based at the ESA Climate Office in Oxfordshire. In 2021, Dr Woolway was awarded a UK Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship. He joined the School of Ocean Sciences as a NERC Independent Research Fellow (Reader) in 2022. In 2023 he was awarded a Dillwyn Medal for STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) from the Learned Society of Wales in recognition of early career research excellence for his work in the field of global environmental change. In 2024, he was awarded a Distinguished Scientist fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences via the President's International Fellowship Initiative.

Research Areas

  1. 2019
  2. Cyhoeddwyd

    Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world

    Sharma, S., Blagrave, K., Magnuson, J. J., O'Reilly, C. M., Oliver, S., Batt, R. D., Magee, M. R., Straile, D., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Winslow, L. & Woolway, R. I., 1 Maw 2019, Yn: Nature Climate Change. 9, 3, t. 227-231

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  3. 2018
  4. Cyhoeddwyd

    Satellite and In Situ Observations for Advancing Global Earth Surface Modelling: A Review

    Balsamo, G., Agusti-Parareda, A., Albergel, C., Arduini, G., Beljaars, A., Bidlot, J., Bousserez, N., Boussetta, S., Brown, A., Buizza, R., Buontempo, C., Chevallier, F., Choulga, M., Cloke, H., Cronin, M. F., Dahoui, M., De Rosnay, P., Dirmeyer, P. A., Drusch, M., Dutra, E., Ek, M. B., Gentine, P., Hewitt, H., Keeley, S. P. E., Kerr, Y., Kumar, S., Lupu, C., Mahfouf, J-F., McNorton, J., Mecklenburg, S., Mogensen, K., Munoz-Sabater, J., Orth, R., Rabier, F., Reichle, R., Ruston, B., Pappenberger, F., Sandu, I., Seneviratne, S. I., Tietsche, S., Trigo, I. F., Uijlenhoet, R., Wedi, N., Woolway, R. I. & Zeng, X., 14 Rhag 2018, Yn: Remote Sensing. 10, 12

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  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    Geographic and temporal variations in turbulent heat loss from lakes: A global analysis across 45 lakes

    Woolway, R. I., Verburg, P., Lenters, J. D., Merchant, C. J., Hamilton, D. P., Brookes, J., de Eyto, E., Kelly, S., Healey, N. C., Hook, S., Laas, A., Pierson, D., Rusak, J. A., Kuha, J., Karjalainen, J., Kallio, K., Lepistoe, A. & Jones, I. D., 1 Tach 2018, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 63, 6, t. 2436-2449

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  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Physical and chemical impacts of a major storm on a temperate lake: a taste of things to come?

    Woolway, R. I., Simpson, J. H., Spiby, D., Feuchtmayr, H., Powell, B. & Maberly, S. C., Tach 2018, Yn: Climatic Change. 151, 2, t. 333-347

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  7. Cyhoeddwyd

    A multi-lake comparative analysis of the General Lake Model (GLM): Stress-testing across a global observatory network

    Bruce, L. C., Frassl, M. A., Arhonditsis, G. B., Gal, G., Hamilton, D. P., Hanson, P. C., Hetherington, A. L., Melack, J. M., Read, J. S., Rinke, K., Rigosi, A., Trolle, D., Winslow, L., Adrian, R., Ayala, A. I., Bocaniov, S. A., Boehrer, B., Boon, C., Brookes, J. D., Bueche, T., Busch, B. D., Copetti, D., Cortes, A., de Eyto, E., Elliott, J. A., Gallina, N., Gilboa, Y., Guyennon, N., Huang, L., Kerimoglu, O., Lenters, J. D., MacIntyre, S., Makler-Pick, V., McBride, C. G., Moreira, S., Oezkundakci, D., Pilotti, M., Rueda, F. J., Rusak, J. A., Samal, N. R., Schmid, M., Shatwell, T., Snorthheim, C., Soulignac, F., Valerio, G., van der Linden, L., Vetter, M., Vincon-Leite, B., Wang, J., Weber, M., Wickramaratne, C., Woolway, R. I., Yao, H. & Hipsey, M. R., 14 Ebr 2018, Yn: Environmental Modelling and Software. 102, t. 274-291

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  8. Cyhoeddwyd

    Intralake Heterogeneity of Thermal Responses to Climate Change: A Study of Large Northern Hemisphere Lakes

    Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 27 Maw 2018, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research : Atmospheres. 123, 6, t. 3087-3098

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  9. 2017
  10. Cyhoeddwyd

    Latitude and lake size are important predictors of over-lake atmospheric stability

    Woolway, R. I., Verburg, P., Merchant, C. J., Lenters, J. D., Hamilton, D. P., Brookes, J., Kelly, S., Hook, S., Laas, A., Pierson, D., Rimmer, A., Rusak, J. A. & Jones, I. D., 16 Medi 2017, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 17, t. 8875-8883

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  11. Cyhoeddwyd

    Energy input and dissipation in a temperate lake during the spring transition

    Woolway, R. & Simpson, J., Awst 2017, Yn: Ocean Dynamics. 67, 8, t. 959-971

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  12. Cyhoeddwyd

    Amplified surface temperature response of cold, deep lakes to inter-annual air temperature variability

    Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 23 Meh 2017, Yn: Scientific Reports. 7

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  13. Cyhoeddwyd

    Warming of Central European lakes and their response to the 1980s climate regime shift

    Woolway, R. I., Dokulil, M. T., Marszelewski, W., Schmid, M., Bouffard, D. & Merchant, C. J., 1 Meh 2017, Yn: Climatic Change. 142, 3-4, t. 505-520

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